Mixing vinegar and bleach together releases a poisonous chlorine gas, which can be fatal if inhaled at high enough concentrations. Another common household cleaning mistake? In TikTok that went ...

And sometimes it depends on the kind of bleach — a chlorine formula? or one free of chlorine? — or the concentration and ...

The internet bristles with advice about what to use, ranging from vinegar to chlorine bleach and oxygen bleach — though never a combination of chlorine bleach and vinegar or other acid ...

And sometimes it depends on the kind of bleach — a chlorine formula? or one free of chlorine? — or the concentration and dwell time (how long the bleach is in contact with a material).

That said, at my job we still sanitize surfaces with the same old chlorine bleach solution folks have been using for at least 50 years. How come bacteria never seem to evolve resistance to that?